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Garrick, he is one of the shabbiest, meanest, most pitiful hounds I ever saw in the whole course of my life. Abel Drugger is a character in Ben Jonson's Alchemist. See post, under Sept. 30, 1783. Lord Shelburne in 1766, at the age of twenty-nine, was appointed Secretary of State in Lord Chatham's ministry. Fitzmaurice's Shelburne, ii. 1. Jeremy Bentham said of him: 'His head was not clear.
When I reached Dalrymple I learnt that one of Fitzmaurice's teams had been swept over the rocks while crossing the Burdekin River, and that eight of the bullocks were drowned. It appeared that the river, though not a-swim, was running strong at the crossing.
'It cost me, he continues, 'more to unlearn the habits, manners, and principles which I then imbibed, than would have served to qualify me for any rôle whatever through life. Fitzmaurice's Shelburne, i. 12, 16. Bentham, it is reported, said of of him that 'alone of his own time, he was a "Minister who did not fear the people." Ib. iii. 572.
On June 16, 1784, he said of a very timid boy: 'Placing him at a public school is forcing an owl upon day. Lord Shelburne says that the first Pitt told him 'that his reason for preferring private to public education was, that he scarce observed a boy who was not cowed for life at Eton; that a public school might suit a boy of a turbulent forward disposition, but would not do where there was any gentleness. Fitzmaurice's Shelburne, i. 72.
The writer, after describing him as masquerading as 'the heir apparent of Loyola and all the College, continues: 'A little more of the devil, my Lord, if you please, about the eyebrows; that's enough, a perfect Malagrida, I protest. Fitzmaurice's Shelburne, ii. 164. 'George III. habitually spoke of Shelburne as "Malagrida," and the "Jesuit of Berkeley Square." Ib. iii. 8.
On the strength of some remote or pretended relationship to the McMurroghs, Stukely obtained from the Pope the titles of Marquis of Leinster and Baron of Idrone and Ross; at Fitzmaurice's urgent request so it is stated he was named Vice-Admiral of the fleet.
Fitzmaurice's landing. He had a strong impression that these northern people were of gigantic stature; and in the midst of the silent and gaping interest with which he listened to Mr. Fitzmaurice's account of his adventure, the words big fella often escaped from his lips; and he appeared quite satisfied when assured that his opinion was correct.
For many years Steele ran a consultation on the Melbourne Cup which was well patronised, until the anti-gambling legislation, which drove Adams from Queensland, suppressed it, but did not stamp out gambling. I arranged a partnership with Mr. W. M. Campbell, traveller for Stewart and Hemmant, of Brisbane. He and his wife and family were settled in Fitzmaurice's house by the end of this year.
R.J. Ray's play, The Casting Out of Martin Whelan, is the best this dramatist has as yet given us, and George Fitzmaurice's The Country Dressmaker has the elements of good drama in it. St. John G. Ervine has written a very human drama in Mixed Marriage.
Thrale's house 'in order to be constantly near London. Fitzmaurice's Shelburne, iii. 242. Mr. Croker quotes the following from the Rose MSS.: 'Oct. 6, Die Dominica, 1782. Non laetus accubui, cibum modicè sumpsi, ne intemperantiâ ad extremum peccaretur. Si recte memini, in mentem venerunt epulae in exequiis Hadoni celebratae. Streathamiam quando revisam? 'Mr. Metcalfe is much with Dr.
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